Hi, I'm Akshansh 👋
Senior Software Engineer · Python & React · D. E. Shaw
I build mission-critical full-stack tools for the risk team at D. E. Shaw — 5+ years turning complex, high-stakes problems into reliable, high-impact software.
At a Glance
| 💼 Experience | 5+ years, currently at D. E. Shaw |
| 🏆 Hackathons | 2× D. E. Shaw First Prize winner |
| 🐛 Security | Google Bug Hunter Hall of Fame |
| 🎓 Education | M.Tech, BITS Pilani |
| 📍 Location | India |
Skills
Featured Work
🔴 Session Replay Tool · 2024 Monitors production-critical apps and replays user sessions with video-like playback, real-time console logs, and network request data — eliminating manual bug reporting.
🤖 Knowledge-Sharing Chat Assistant · 2023 RAG + Claude SDK assistant built over the Risk Team's entire codebase and documentation. Reduced new member onboarding time by 30%.
⚡ Data Validation Framework · 2022 Automated daily monitoring and alerting for firmwide performance attribution numbers. Reduced Quant debugging time by 50%.
🧩 Custom Streamlit Components · Open Source Designed and published custom UI components to the Streamlit open-source ecosystem.
Achievements
🥇 First Prize — D. E. Shaw Firm-wide Hackathon (2024) 🥇 First Prize — D. E. Shaw QTE Hackathon (2021) 🐛 Google Bug Hunter Hall of Fame (2019) 🔵 Google Foobar Challenge (2022)